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Round the World in Eighty Days

 
Jules Verne (Author)
Synopsis Round the world in Eighty Days, published in 1873, brought Jules Verne (1828-1905) to the height of his fame and prosperity, although his earlier successes, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, were no less popular. Mr Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of means of the most exact habits and unruffled temperament, lays a bet of $ 20, 000 at the Reform Club in London that he will make a trip round the world by steamship, railway train, and other modes of transport in not more than eighty days. So great is the excitement aroused by the bet that a New Security appears on the London Exchange. He sets out with this newly appointed French servant, Passepartout. In Suez, a detective attaches himself to the party in the belief that Mr. Fogg is the bank robber who had made away with $ 55, 000 from the Bank of England. Mr. Fogg's itinerary takes hi through Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong-Kong, yokihama, San Francisco, New York, and Liverpool with strange, exciting, and sometimes blood-curdling incidents en route. On the way from Bombay to Calcutta he rescues a beautiful woman from the suttee, his train runs at a tremendous speed across a crumbling bridge, Sioux Indians attack the train and kidnap the servant. Mr. Fogg is arrested twice, and he has to hijack a ship to cross the Atlantic in order to reach London on time. An yet, at the last moment, it seems that success has eluded him. A geographical error saves him, however, and not only does he win the bet but also the fair hand of the lady he rescued from the funeral pyre.
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About the author

Jules Verne

JULES VERNE (1828-1905) was a French author whose writing shaped the development of modern science fiction. After studying law he chose to follow his interest in literature. In 1863 Verne published the first of his Voyages extraordinaires - Cinq semaines en balloon (Five Weeks in a Balloon). Verne's novels were immensely popular throughout the world, the most famous being, Around the World in Eighty days.

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Title Round the World in Eighty Days
Author Jules Verne
Format Softcover
Date published: 03.07.1995
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8172230419
length 253p.